Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs: I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by introducing automatic transcription between languages and specifying what language the mayor's default name is in. If automatic transcription gets it wrong, it could still be

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs: On 14/08/12 08:57, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs: I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by introducing automatic transcription between languages and specifying what language

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Gregor Hagedorn
I think the topic is relevant for the Wikidata editing UI. At the hackathon in Berlin we had discussions about a chain of fallback languages. Have reworked and added some potential user-interface behaviour to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Language_fallback Gregor

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 14/08/12 09:28, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs: On 14/08/12 08:57, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs: I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by introducing automatic transcription between

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread dr . cueppers . gmbh
In cases of changing an old name by a new name a second problem will be the fact: For the old name may exist an article in some of the wikis - what means, there the old name is [[Adam]], but the new has no article and must be Eva, but not [[Eva]]: To change this correct, always human

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
It is not. Wikidata would know if an article on Eva exists in the Wikipedia of a given language (if it is appropriately connected), and thus would be able to automatically offer the link or not. Cheers, Denny 2012/8/14 dr.cueppers.g...@arcor.de: In cases of changing an old name by a new name

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/14 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de: In general I am a strong believer of let's start with the simple thing, which is to let editors add transliterations (that is why we have a label field for every entity in every language). I may see a use case for a transliteration-bot

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread dr . cueppers . gmbh
@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 14.08.2012 16:30 Betreff: Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki It is not. Wikidata would know if an article on Eva exists in the Wikipedia of a given language (if it is appropriately connected), and thus would be able to automatically offer

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Marco Fleckinger
On 08/14/2012 05:29 PM, dr.cueppers.g...@arcor.de wrote: And if there are 10 articles Eva with [[Eva (abc)]], [[Eva (def]], [[Eva (ghi]] ? Wikidata will find out the correct one in every case? As I unterstood, we have articles and we have WikiData-Items. Linking articles will be done

Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
. wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 14.08.2012 16:30 Betreff: Re: [Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki It is not. Wikidata would know if an article on Eva exists in the Wikipedia of a given language (if it is appropriately connected), and thus would be able

[Wikidata-l] watching Wikidata changes that affect my wiki

2012-08-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, Preamble 1: This email probably falls under this FAQ question: Q: How will Wikidata change the way articles are edited? A: That’s part of what we have to figure out during the development, together with the community. Preamble 2: It's possible that there's an answer to this issue already,